Jeffrey West Kirkwood
@jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social
Media theory, art history professor
Books:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517912543/endless-intervals/
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517902261/elements-of-a-philosophy-of-technology/
Surplus data: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ci/2022/48/
Books:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517912543/endless-intervals/
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517902261/elements-of-a-philosophy-of-technology/
Surplus data: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ci/2022/48/
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a student has alerted me to the fact that Andreesen Horowitz is citing Fredric Jameson in its newsletters a16z.com/prediction-t...
Prediction: the successor to postmodernism | Andreessen Horowitz
Prediction is emerging as the defining framework beyond postmodernism — reshaping business models, technology adoption, and cultural trends. Explore how AI, prediction markets, and speculation are dri...
a16z.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
a student has alerted me to the fact that Andreesen Horowitz is citing Fredric Jameson in its newsletters a16z.com/prediction-t...
SUNY Binghamton just substantially increased stipends for grad students and we have several fully-funded PhD spots in art history. Pretty sure our endowment is smaller more our placement record is great
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
SUNY Binghamton just substantially increased stipends for grad students and we have several fully-funded PhD spots in art history. Pretty sure our endowment is smaller more our placement record is great
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
TT job alert. My department is hiring an assistant professor in architectural history and urban studies in any geographical area, post-500 CE binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
binghamton.interviewexchange.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
TT job alert. My department is hiring an assistant professor in architectural history and urban studies in any geographical area, post-500 CE binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
I wrote about the 13th Berlin Biennale for @eflux.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/criticism/67...
- Criticism - e-flux
The terms for the 13th Berlin Biennale are set out in the first room of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art. On display is Armin Linke
www.e-flux.com
July 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I wrote about the 13th Berlin Biennale for @eflux.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/criticism/67...
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@jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social, your book flipped my thinking about machines and humans in so many ways. An important history to prepare us for the coming AI disruptions.
Delighted to read the excellent review by @wluers.bsky.social of my book Endless Intervals in @electronicbook electronicbookreview.com/essay/a-revi...
@uminnpress.bsky.social
@uminnpress.bsky.social
A Review of Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 by Jeffrey West Kirkwood
We take for granted the layers of mechanized intervals that shape contemporary experience, just as we overlook the gaps between letters, words, and sentences when we read. We get from here to there wh...
electronicbookreview.com
June 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
@jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social, your book flipped my thinking about machines and humans in so many ways. An important history to prepare us for the coming AI disruptions.
Delighted to read the excellent review by @wluers.bsky.social of my book Endless Intervals in @electronicbook electronicbookreview.com/essay/a-revi...
@uminnpress.bsky.social
@uminnpress.bsky.social
A Review of Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 by Jeffrey West Kirkwood
We take for granted the layers of mechanized intervals that shape contemporary experience, just as we overlook the gaps between letters, words, and sentences when we read. We get from here to there wh...
electronicbookreview.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Delighted to read the excellent review by @wluers.bsky.social of my book Endless Intervals in @electronicbook electronicbookreview.com/essay/a-revi...
@uminnpress.bsky.social
@uminnpress.bsky.social
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I can’t wait to be in one of my favourite places, Rome, to speak at this conference at the Bibliotheca Hertziana. I will present an argument for a transcendental philosophy of computation.
My abstract is the pic below, and full programme is here: www.biblhertz.it/events/41601...
@bhmpi.bsky.social
My abstract is the pic below, and full programme is here: www.biblhertz.it/events/41601...
@bhmpi.bsky.social
April 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I can’t wait to be in one of my favourite places, Rome, to speak at this conference at the Bibliotheca Hertziana. I will present an argument for a transcendental philosophy of computation.
My abstract is the pic below, and full programme is here: www.biblhertz.it/events/41601...
@bhmpi.bsky.social
My abstract is the pic below, and full programme is here: www.biblhertz.it/events/41601...
@bhmpi.bsky.social
My grad seminar for next semester is set to be banger
April 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
My grad seminar for next semester is set to be banger
spacex, twitter, and tesla stock share one important feature: they're crashing
March 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
spacex, twitter, and tesla stock share one important feature: they're crashing
Found the vp’s tailor
February 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Found the vp’s tailor
Reposted by Jeffrey West Kirkwood
We are saddened to learn that artist Rutherford Chang has passed away. In 2004, Rutherford proposed a spectacular poster for our “Average” issue: The New York Times’s front page with every section’s words cut out (by hand!) and reordered alphabetically.
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/15/ch...
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/15/ch...
Artist Project / Poster Insert: Alphabetized Newspaper | Rutherford Chang
Edition late
www.cabinetmagazine.org
February 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
We are saddened to learn that artist Rutherford Chang has passed away. In 2004, Rutherford proposed a spectacular poster for our “Average” issue: The New York Times’s front page with every section’s words cut out (by hand!) and reordered alphabetically.
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/15/ch...
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/15/ch...
Sometimes I wonder how a robot would feel encountering this when simply trying to catch up on lit in the humanities
February 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Sometimes I wonder how a robot would feel encountering this when simply trying to catch up on lit in the humanities
Can I say that I don't think now is a great time for a Caspar David Friedrich show called "The Soul of Nature" at the Met? At least Germany had the good sense to call it "Infinite Landscapes" www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibition upcoming at The Met
www.metmuseum.org
February 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Can I say that I don't think now is a great time for a Caspar David Friedrich show called "The Soul of Nature" at the Met? At least Germany had the good sense to call it "Infinite Landscapes" www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
AI agent that humiliates you by responding in English when you speak to it in French
February 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
AI agent that humiliates you by responding in English when you speak to it in French
Sad to hear that Andy Rabinbach died. He was a defining intellectual force on campus and like 10 fields while I was at Princeton, his syllabus on Begriffsgeschichte is still the best, he was always open to meet, and Human Motor elevated being tired to its rightful position of utmost significance!
February 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Sad to hear that Andy Rabinbach died. He was a defining intellectual force on campus and like 10 fields while I was at Princeton, his syllabus on Begriffsgeschichte is still the best, he was always open to meet, and Human Motor elevated being tired to its rightful position of utmost significance!
I've seen some people posting clips of Milton Friedman on free trade as if it were a sage antidote to batshit tariffs and I'd just like to say NO
February 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I've seen some people posting clips of Milton Friedman on free trade as if it were a sage antidote to batshit tariffs and I'd just like to say NO
Maybe a scientific dark web is in order
February 1, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Maybe a scientific dark web is in order
John Crowley's short @harpers.bsky.social piece about how working as a temp to digitize the nyc phone book entirely reconfigured the mental and social cartography of the city is still the best into to media theory in existence harpers.org/archive/2014...
Page Turner, by John Crowley
harpers.org
January 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
John Crowley's short @harpers.bsky.social piece about how working as a temp to digitize the nyc phone book entirely reconfigured the mental and social cartography of the city is still the best into to media theory in existence harpers.org/archive/2014...
tiktok going down just before my media theory course begins is so convenient for my continuing to ignore it
January 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
tiktok going down just before my media theory course begins is so convenient for my continuing to ignore it
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New on @HSciMedTech:
Check out Jeff S. Nagy (@UMich)’s review of Jeffrey West Kirkwood (@binghamtonu @HarpurCollege)’s book _Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900_, pub 2022 @UMinnPress
#HSTM
Review available...
Check out Jeff S. Nagy (@UMich)’s review of Jeffrey West Kirkwood (@binghamtonu @HarpurCollege)’s book _Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900_, pub 2022 @UMinnPress
#HSTM
Review available...
November 23, 2024 at 5:22 PM
New on @HSciMedTech:
Check out Jeff S. Nagy (@UMich)’s review of Jeffrey West Kirkwood (@binghamtonu @HarpurCollege)’s book _Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900_, pub 2022 @UMinnPress
#HSTM
Review available...
Check out Jeff S. Nagy (@UMich)’s review of Jeffrey West Kirkwood (@binghamtonu @HarpurCollege)’s book _Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900_, pub 2022 @UMinnPress
#HSTM
Review available...
Sometimes you score a mint condition first edition Coetzee for ten bucks from the discard bin at the bookstore
December 19, 2024 at 2:17 AM
Sometimes you score a mint condition first edition Coetzee for ten bucks from the discard bin at the bookstore
Now that Bitcoin has broken 100k it's worth remembering that the monstrous global resource destroying system on which it's based is not an outlier of the digital economy but an expression of its core logic—one that thrives on maximizing inefficiency www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
From Work to Proof of Work: Meaning and Value after Blockchain | Critical Inquiry: Vol 48, No 2
Abstract The price of Bitcoin is once more soaring. From early October 2020 to early January 2021, the price of a single Bitcoin token went from roughly $10,000 to nearly $65,000, reinspiring the hope...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
December 5, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Now that Bitcoin has broken 100k it's worth remembering that the monstrous global resource destroying system on which it's based is not an outlier of the digital economy but an expression of its core logic—one that thrives on maximizing inefficiency www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
I'm the farthest thing from a free market evangelist but if I were (like those criticizing the "purity politics" of the move) I might be inclined to think that a massive user movement away from a particular platform could only be rationalized as a failure that platform's leadership
“Leaving X because you don’t like Elon is the kind of purity politics that landed Democrats in this mess to begin with.”
Democrats Face an Existential Crisis on X
Conversations with a dozen insiders point to a party that is unsure about whether to leave or engage with the increasingly MAGA platform.
www.politico.com
December 1, 2024 at 9:59 PM
I'm the farthest thing from a free market evangelist but if I were (like those criticizing the "purity politics" of the move) I might be inclined to think that a massive user movement away from a particular platform could only be rationalized as a failure that platform's leadership
They should have named it "alibi"
www.techradar.com/computing/ar...
www.techradar.com/computing/ar...
OpenAI’s next ‘giant breakthrough’ tipped to land soon and control your computer
'Operator' AI agent could be here in January
www.techradar.com
November 14, 2024 at 2:52 PM
They should have named it "alibi"
www.techradar.com/computing/ar...
www.techradar.com/computing/ar...